Unfortunately we do not have the same standard of comp. as the Aussies have and diluting GB into England Scotland Wales and Ireland further weakens us, so we shouldn't be averse to a little bit of help here and there if we want to be competitive. Can't see many rugby league fans not giving a damn about the result though.

is the game on in the cats bar later do we know?

anybody watching on internet if so what sites are showing it for free

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What about Australia playing with Tongan's, Fijian's and New Zealander's for all these years??

I really do wonder about the mentality of some people. Are you ever happy?

I don't care about Australia and what they do, and just because others do it it doesn't make it right.

And I really do wonder about the morals of some people, people like yourself who clearly don't have a problem with mercenaries representing our national side. The same mercenaries who were eager to represent their own country until their own country deemed them not good enough, or even worse, were deemed unworthy due to off field behaviour. But for whatever reason they are now representing my country. I will never be happy with that.

I really do hope England get spanked tonight.

why oh why do we persist with 'take the tackle' Sinfield?

If we keep our composure when Auz hit our flanks at pace, we could take this. Tomkins has to pick his game up tho.

Thurston is some player. Tell him to hit any square foot of grass via a kick or pass and he will do it everytime.

Well this is a waste of money... Predictable rugby, crap kicking sinfield, tomkins playing cack, and crowd leaving in the hundreds. Same story every year we need to man up and give them some.

We may get a coach one day that doesn't do drop offs all the time and actually plays the halves in their positions

Forget the last 3 scores the kicking game was key for me, Aussie split the defenders everytime. Sinners put it down Boyd's throat each time. Auz are superior but they are reluctant to use their strong wide game within their own 40.

I do actually think we may have improved slightly, although NZ have gone backwards, and Aus won at a cantor.
Chase and Sinfield gave us nothing all competition yet widdop doesnt get a sniff, neither did Morley and Peacock and carvell is on the bench too.
A fit Sam Burgess would have made us a much tougher proposition, and overall I think our threaquarters were ok too.
Time for a big re think, there are things to be positive about, but we are desperate for young British players to get some decent footy time.

I reckon our whole game needs a radical overhaul. We need to stem the tide of second rate foreigners coming over here because they can't get a game in their own country (and we should know, as we're guilty of it as much as anyone else). It might set us back for a few years in the short term, but unless we do something drastic then I can't see us getting close to the Aussies. Sacking McNamara would be a good start.